The third meeting of the project “Systems Approaches to Information Ethics” was held in Vienna 13-17 November 2017. The topics included: foundational questions of systems approaches (evolutionary theory, emergentist systemism and normativity; information in the context of Being and non-being,…

ISSS 2018 Innovation and Optimization in Nature and Design 62nd Annual Conference and Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences 22nd to 27th July 2018 Corvallis, Oregon, USA The ISSS 2018 will explore foundational discoveries about the nature…

EUS – UES 2018 A Systemic Vision of the Crises From optimization to change strategy? 10th Congress of the European Union for Systemics 15th to 17th October 2018 Brussels, Belgium Although raised many times on other congresses, the theme…

We are proud to announce the successful completion of Monika Pichler‘s Erasmus Mundus Master Degree on “Smart City Vienna: System Dynamics Modelling as a Tool for Understanding Feedbacks and Supporting Smart City Strategies“. For her studies Monika took part in…

The Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science looks back on a great meeting! In cooperation with the International Society for the Systems Sciences in July 2017 the BCSSS organized the 61st Annual World Conference ISSS2017 Vienna. …

“Designing for Conviviality” Talk by Cristina Voinea, PhD Candidate at the University of Bucharest, Department of Philosophy Wednesday, 15 November 10:15 am BCSSS – Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science Paulanergasse 13/5 1040 Vienna If you are interested…

Klaus Kornwachs (photo: Leonhard Kornwachs) Ulm University celebrated the 70th birthday of Klaus Kornwachs, system theorist and philosopher of technology, member of our Scientific Council. The Humboldt-Studienzentrum für Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften, part of the School of Humanities, convened on October…

We are pleased to announce the start of the new BCSSS Research Group “Systems Science and Pattern Literacy”. The mission of the group leaders Maria Lenzi and Helen Finidori is to explore the development of Systems to promote Pattern Literacy.…